15 November, 2013

ISTANBUL –– One of the rising young talents of the advertising world, Tolga Büyükdoğanay will continue his professional carrier, which he has been successfully building for a decade across Europe, at Ogilvy & Mather İstanbul as Executive Creative Director.

Country Head Aytül Özkan said that Tolga Büyükdoğanay’s arrival to İstanbul from the Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt office marked the beginning of a new era that would strengthen them even further as an agency.

Ogilvy & Mather Istanbul experiences the excitement of having a talent, who proved himself in the international arena. Tolga Büyükdoğanay, who had been most recently serving at Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt after a decade in his career across Europe, was appointed to Ogilvy & Mather Istanbul as Executive Creative Director as of 1 November 2013.

Noting that Tolga Büyükdoğanay’s joining in the ranks of Ogilvy & Mather Istanbul marked the beginning of a new era, Aytül Özkan continued:

“Its talents are invariably the greatest and most valuable asset of Ogilvy, which has made the necessary investments in parallel with the development of our industry and led the way in many countries across the world in the transformation of advertising in the 21st century. The combination of this deep-seated culture with the information, know-how and business models required by brand communication of our age has brought us the pride of becoming the most awarded network agency in both event and creative fields for the last 2 years in a row.

Joining of Tolga Büyükdoğanay — a contributor to the success of Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt agency, which is the leading top-performing agency in the EMEA region— in our team in Istanbul not only thrilled us immensely but has also been received with great joy and appreciation within the Ogilvy network. In line with our culture at Ogilvy, we train our top executives in-house. Accordingly, I believe that Tolga Büyükdoğanay, who started the profession in Turkey before creating highly admired works in Europe for a decade with his talent and achievements, will achieve great success here at Ogilvy & Mather Istanbul as well. Tolga’s joining in our ranks will further strengthen our team, which includes the most competent names in the sector, and open the doors to new exciting era for our agency. All of us at the agency are thrilled and pleased with this.”

After completing his graphics design education, Tolga Büyükdoğanay worked at Publicis and McCann Erickson agencies as Art Director. He went to Vienna to take up a job offer from Redcell, before returning back to İstanbul for a brief period to work at Ajans Ultra. He then returned back to Vienna and started working at DraftFCB. A year later, the agency climbed to the top of the Austrian creative agencies ranking. During this time, a campaign by Tolga Büyükdoğanay was published in The Gunn Report and many others in Shots, Campaign, Adage, Creativity Magazine, and Lürzer’s Archive magazines. Having received more than 100 national and international awards, Tolga Büyükdoğanay has served in the CCA Austria, ADC Germany, Golden Drum, Adstars Asia, ZMG Germany, Das Plakat Germany, Adrenaline Lithuania, and Crystal Apple juries. Büyükdoğanay has been teaching “Public Communication” to graduate students at the University of Vienna since 2010.